The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-07-22
TEACHING DIsOBEDIENCE.

lIt llllit 10Y IuuS dbuICSSti JbDk Lllt
orange with thanks, and held it in his
hand looking at it appreciatively. "Why
don't you eat to" "My mamma don't
low me to eat atween meals" "But your
mamma isn't here. She won't know it.
You just go under the table, where she
won't see yoI if she happens to come in,
and eat it, and enjoy yourself. It's all
nonsense not to let a child eat an orange
between meals The suggestion accorded
with the child's desires, and he followed it
The young lady who made it was q girl
Of good intentions, and would rave been
angry had any one told her that she
was teaching that boy to lie and deceive
by actions. He was five years old, and
that one little lesson remained with him
for years, in its effect upon his moral
nature, and caused his mother great anxiety
and himself numerous punishments.
A little girl was sent on a. GRAND; she
found the family sitting down to tea. and
was invited to share.in the meal.
"No thank you," said she, "my mamma
don't like me to eat AWAY from home with
ont her permission"
ooh, she won't care" said the hospita.
BILE hostess. "I'l take the responsibility,
and if she must whip somebody, tell her
to whip me-" Overcome by persuasion,
the child sat down and ate with the family.
Returning home, size refused TO eat any
supper. saying she was not hungry.
Mamma knew that her children were not
troubled with loss o fappetite without eause,
and, with some tender anxiety, asked.
"Why are you not hungry? Don't you
feel well?' Then her experienced eye read
in the chiid's expressive face that this
question was a temptation to subterfuge,
and she FASTENED to ask another, which
| should lead her to tell the truth.
"What did you eat at Mrs. Ellis's?'
At once the fimsy veil of deceit was
blown away from before the little girls
vision, and she answered brayely: 'FWhy,
mamma, | had hot biscuit, and two kinds
of cake, and choose, and-and Mrs. Ellis
asked me if | liked tea, and | said yes, but
you did not want me to drink it, and she
fixed some tea, and said | should drink it,
and you wouldn't know it; but | didn't dc
that, mamma, and I think folks have nc
business to make it so hard for little girls
to mind their mothers"
! And that is just what | think. No mat
ter if do not uphold your theory of edu-
cation in my thought, | ought to uphold ii
to your children. Even if I think you to
be foolish and wrong in your commands to
your child. I nave no right to tell them so,
and thus make their obedience to you diff.
cult and painful.
"Why don't you eat your apple now?'
asked a lady upon whom l was calling,
who had given an apple to my little son.
81 am going to keep it to eat with my
dinner tomorrow" said he, thinking this
no hardship. as he had always been used
to saving his treasures of candy, nuts, oil
apples to eat at an appropriate meal-time.
Don't you wish you were my little boy:
I wonld let you eat all the apples you
wanted at any time OF day"
The prospect was a tempting one, and
for the first time he began to doubt mann
mas wisdom and love.
The lady meant no disrespect to me, MOI
harm to my child; yet she manifested the
one and accomplished the other. Many .
time after that, when some desired treat
was commanded to be postponed, I heard,
"If was Mrs. Mann's little boy she'd lei
me nave it now
A lady, in urging a little girl to accept
delicacy which had been declined on til,
ground that she was mot permitted TO cal
between meals" used these words: "You
would better take it now, or you won't gei
it at ALL" The next day the little four
year-old sat deeply immersed in thought.
The subject of her meditations was mani
tested when she said: "Mamma, | dom
think folks ought to say, when tell them
you don't let me eat between meals, that i
l don't take it now | won't get it. | thinl
they ought to say, Put it in your pocket
dear, and save it till tomorrow but folk
don't seem to care how much they hel
othef peoples children not to mind"
An amount of wise thinking had beer
going on in that busy little brain, and il
her last statement she expressed a sad fact
People don't care how much they teacl
disobedience to the children of others
They do not intend to lead them astray
but because they think the command {
foolish one, they do not realize their obi
CATION to uphold it. Friends, | beseecl
you, in behalf of the children who are sc.
riously injured by such unwise Sights cas-
upon parental authority, N of the parents
whose hold upon the hearts and confidence
of their children is thus weakened never
urge a child to do anything, however small
and, in your eyes, Insignificant, which i
in any degree contrary to the expressed %
implied will of their fathers or mothers
By your efforts and words make it easy
rather than hard, for the little ones to b,
bedient.-Marg A. Allen. u. D.
How easily butter takes a faint. Say
the American DdiTgmdH: A few week
ago we saw a large dairy farmer, who's
butter brings a price high above the mar
ket. carting out manure. The carts wen
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